I'm running 1.7.2a for Mac. Have never had trouble until a few days ago. Suddenly, when I try to view my php site via localhost, there is no content on any of the pages. I'm not getting a 404 - not getting a db connection message - just zero content. When I do a view source, there's nothing there. Someone suggested it might be a permissions issue so I checked and although my username had read/write permissions for all the folders, 'admin' and 'everyone' only had read permissions for the xamppfiles, htdocs and the root folder of the site so I changed all of them to read/write. I'm not sure if that was wise but I didn't know what else to try. However, wise or not, it didn't work. I thought maybe I needed a whole new repository now that the permissions were changed so I deleted the original and cloned again. That didn't make a difference, either. I still can't bring up any files from the site.

Everything on my XAMPP console seems to be running fine. The error_log for the past few days has this - none of which I know how to interpret but it was Thurs, Sept 13th when I started having problems:

you might want to change your php file permissions to 755open Terminal, at prompt, type ls -la, you should see something like rwxr-xr-x, if you don't see the x meaning the php file does not have excute permissions therefore it won't do anything

Thanks for the suggestion. I eventually got the problem fixed although I couldn't tell you what all was wrong. I know that part of it was that Skype was using a port that was needed for something else - but as I recall, that was only part of it.